Debian Security Advisory
DLA-2207-1 libntlm -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 10 May 2020
- Affected Packages:
- libntlm
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-17455.
- More information:
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It was discovered that libntlm through 1.5 relies on a fixed buffer size for tSmbNtlmAuthRequest, tSmbNtlmAuthChallenge, and tSmbNtlmAuthResponse read and write operations, as demonstrated by a stack-based buffer over-read in buildSmbNtlmAuthRequest in smbutil.c for a crafted NTLM request.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-3+deb8u1.We recommend that you upgrade your libntlm packages.
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